They can fly

[Scott]

I heard this strange noise outside. Sounded like an animal in distress. I went outside and looked around. It was a turkey walking around on the roof of the neighbor's garage.

"How did you get up there?" I asked it.

It jumped off and flew across the street.

It knew what it was doing.

[Nancy]

I remember driving in the country a few years ago, when suddenly it got very dark overhead. I looked up and these giant... THINGS... were flying above! Turns out they were wild turkeys!!! Looked so weird. They're too round to look like they could fly.

There's a pelican that occasionally lands on my parents' roof. He looks weird flying too.

[Stormwatcher]

Nothing so exotic as pelicans here, the best we do is occasionally have a flock of seagulls turn up. We're far enough inland that this is an unusual sight; they generally arrive in time for bad weather to hit. No turkeys, but we do get Canada geese passing by now and again. There's also a couple families of bald eagles living in the general vicinity, so it's not too unusual to see one of those now and again. The wingspan is unmistakable.

[Scott]

The sky being darkened by huge flocks of flying turkeys...it sounds nightmarish! My impression was that the one I saw couldn't make it more than a few feet off the ground although it did make it onto the roof.